Leicester Square is again hosting three major film premieres in London this July and if you can’t get along to see them or want to check out the size of the crowd before you go, the Radisson Edwardian Hotel has a webcam set up to cover the square, it has eight different views and reloads every three seconds. Here are the details of the movies getting the big opening treatment.
3 July - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix The boy wizard is now 35 and has kids of his own, well maybe not in this one but it can’t be long. I haven’t been keeping up with the goings on at Hogwarts but apparently Harry Potter is back for a fifth year and with their warning about Lord Voldemort’s return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts. All the kids are back along with Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman among others directed by David Yates. The premiere is at the Odeon Leicester Square and should draw one of the biggest crowds of the year.
5 July - Hairspray A remake of a 1988 film by director John Waters, this version stars John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer and Queen Latifah in a story about a fat teenager auditioning for a tv dance show in 1960s Baltimore. This will be the second time in the last few months John Travolta’s been in town for a premiere, this one’s at the Odeon West End.
25 July - The Simpsons Movie Around on tv for almost 20 years The Simpsons finally make it onto the big screen and the good thing is they don’t seemed to have aged at all. The plot revolves around Homer mistakenly polluting the river with toxic waste from the power plant, losing his job and forcing the evacuation of Springfield, possibly forever. Should be a lot of fans on hand at the Vue West End cinema, not sure about the cast. The latest trailer’s below.
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